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Events at the Henry Royce Institute
And from around the Materials Community

07 May 2025 - 08 May 2025
All Day
In Collaboration with Verder Scientific, this course explores milling, particle characterisation, tube furnaces and hardness testing techniques involved in the fabrication of advanced materials. The content will cover the application of these processes across Royce’s research areas in advanced metals processing, biomedical materials, chemical materials design, and nuclear materials.
Event Type: Training
Lead Partner:University of Manchester
Location: Royce Hub Building

14 May 2025
All Day
Hosted by the British Carbon Group, this event will explore the technical and scientific aspects of carbon research with the potential to be applied to nuclear decommissioning. There is an opportunity for UK researchers to play a key role in emergent technologies, especially those that could be transferred from other industries and applications.
Event Type: Conference
Lead Partner:University of Manchester
Location: Henry Royce Institute Hub Building

14 May 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
In this online seminar, Dr. Bethan Davies, Research Associate. Imperial College London will give a talk on Testing batteries performance – Elucidating chemical degradation and SEI formation in batteries with microchip-based electrochemistry mass spectrometry
Event Type: Webinar
Lead Partner:Imperial College London

21 May 2025 - 22 May 2025
All Day
CHEMUK is the UK’s leading trade show supporting the R&D, engineering, sourcing, manufacture, and management of chemicals and formulated products.
Event Type:
Lead Partner:none
Location: The NEC | Birmingham

22 May 2025
9:30 am - 4:15 pm
This course will provide an introduction to energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) analysis for alloys at the Royce Hub Building in Manchester.
The content will introduce the concepts for the generation of X-rays for alloy analysis and EDS techniques on bulk samples. Participants will cover experimental produres, quantification methods, sample preparation and analysis artefacts. The course aims to develop understanding and guidance for practical experimentation to ensure the collection of high-quality EDS data.
Event Type:
Lead Partner:University of Manchester
Location: Royce Hub Building

11 June 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
In this online seminar, Dr. Andrew Strudwick, Application Manager at the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre will give a talk on Graphene and 2D material deposition at the GEIC
Event Type: Webinar
Lead Partner:University of Manchester

26 June 2025 - 27 June 2025
9:00 am - 4:30 pm
This workshop aims to bring together the local XPS user community to learn how to begin analysing XPS data. Through the demonstration of basic analysis principles, working with training datasets, and user-submitted examples, the content will help users of the university’s XPS facilities develop understanding of best practice approaches to exploring their own data.
Event Type: Skills
Lead Partner:University of Manchester
Location: Royce Hub Building

01 July 2025 - 03 July 2025
All Day
The Microscience Microscopy Congress (mmc) will be back in 2025! One of the biggest events of its kind in Europe, mmc2025 incorporating EMAG 2025 will bring you the very best in microscopy, imaging and cytometry from across the globe.
Event Type:
Lead Partner:none

01 September 2025 - 03 September 2025
All Day
Discover the latest advancements in AI-driven design, manufacturing, and evaluation of composite materials.
AIComp 2025 offers a unique platform for networking, collaboration, and knowledge-sharing to address the challenges and opportunities in this rapidly evolving industry.
Event Type: Conference
Lead Partner:none